Car-platform



(No Model.)

D. J. LUPTON. GAR PLATFORM.

No. 433,295. Patented July 2Q, 1890.

A TTOHNE YS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID J. LUPTON, OF JERUSALEM, OHIO.

CAR-PLATFORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,295, dated July 29, 1890..

Application filed December 17| 1889. Serial No. 334,042. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAvID J. LUPToN, ot Jerusalem, in the county of Monroe and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Car-Platform, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to platforms applied to railway, freight, and passenger cars; and the object of my invention is to provide a platform that will entirely lill the space between the ends of the ears, so that no one can fall between them, and also to connect and attach the platform in such a ina-nner that the rocking and jolting of the cars while in motion will be greatly lessened.

To this end my invention consists in a platform pivoted to the top of the car-coupler, so that the ends of the platform may move backward and forward in recesses in the ends of the car, and adapted to have its outer edge coupled to the platform of the ad joiningl car. This construction will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

I have shown my invention applied to a passenger-car where it will prevent passengers from falling between the ordinary platforms of the car; but it is especially applicable to freight-cars, where it will prevent train-men from falling between the cars as they are at work upon the outside thereof.

Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation of the platform as applied to an ordinary passen ger-car. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same with a portion of the passenger-platform broken away to show the recess within it, and Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the platform and coupler to which it is attached on the line c of Fig. 2.

The platform A may be made either of wood or metal. It is narrowed in the center and is pivotally attached to the top of the coupler B by the pin a. The sides or ends of the platform A are widened out on each side of the center at the part Z, so as to project back into the chambers C of the passengerplatform D. The ends of the platformAwill thus have a good bearing upon the timbers E,

together and be clasped bythe lugs h b, which will prevent them from breaking down in the center.

XV hen the cars bump together, the plat forms A between the cars will yield with the bufferspring ofthe coupler to which they are attached, and as the cars rock and shake, especially as they round a curve, the motion will be greatly lessened by the platforms, as

they will bear solidly together and swivel on the pivot c.. The platform A should be perforated to allow the coupler-rod CZ to pass up through it.

I have shown the platform A attached to a coupler B, for which I am about to apply for Letters Patent; but I have not described the coupler, as it forms no part of my invention.

lVhen the plat form A is applied to a freightcar, the end beams of the ear should be recessed in the same manner as the passengerplatform D in the drawings, so as to aiford room for the widened ends of the platform.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l l. The combination, with a railway-car having recesses C in the endsthereof, of the platform A, pivotally attached to the car-coupler B, and having widened ends Z, projecting into the recesses C, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with a railway-car, of a movable platform pivotally attached to the car-coupler, said platform having widened ends projecting into' recesses in the end of the car, and having its outer edge provided with lugs adapted to clasp the edge of an adjoining platform, substantially as described.

DAVID J. LUPTON.

Witnesses:

W. R. GATCHELL, J. M. GIBBINS.

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